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Q: Passing large messages to Formail?

2000-07-27 06:38:56
A slight oddity I noticed ...

I have a recipe which, given the correct matches, generates an
auto-reply.

The recipe looks like this:

:0 c
!(/usr/bin/formail ...

On reviewing the Procmail logfile, I noticed that from time to time, an
error message appeared (Error writing to "(/usr/bin/formail ...").  On
closer examination, I could see that this only happened when the message
that was being auto-replied to was "large" (for varying values of
"large").  However, the auto-reply was still generated and sent
correctly!  (If it was not being sent, I would have noticed this problem
before)

I realised that the auto-reply recipe doesn't need to see anything other
than the headers, so I changed the recipe to:

:0 h c
!(/usr/bin/formail ...

My question is: Is there a limit on the size of message that Formail can
process?

Dave.
-- 
Dave Ewart
ewart(_at_)icrf(_dot_)icnet(_dot_)uk
Computing Manager
ICRF Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Oxford UK

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